# Update 8.6 Patch Notes **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [June 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998 "2025-06-24T00:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![WHOCARES25](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/whocares25/32/102013_2.png) [@WHOCARES25](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/WHOCARES25)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/81 "2025-07-03T08:53:51Z")
Personally. The mythic treasure, is better than 500 shards. You could use 500 shards in underworld,and not get a mythic. So mythic is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Darkborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkborne/32/95796_2.png) [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/82 "2025-07-03T14:13:23Z")
The underworld treasures are helpful but confusing at the same time. Chaos shards for the legendary (genie lamp) and mythic (sacred treasure) rewards don’t seem right and maybe the gem and vault keys need to be adjusted as well, but I just don’t know. Maybe 25 and 50 dragonite instead? Or something else? These rewards are “free,” but they can’t be _too_ good. They just need to make more sense and need to be adjusted a bit. The campaign tasks are honestly just fine, and not having to pay for them is a great feature. But the actual campaign pass? That is a whole other issue because for me, those rewards are a lot like the PvP season pass, and I am only going over there to upgrade the artifact. ---
**Author:** ![WHOCARES25](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/whocares25/32/102013_2.png) [@WHOCARES25](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/WHOCARES25)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/83 "2025-07-03T15:19:46Z")
PvP and campaign pass, are now exactly the same formula. The positive is, while doing PvP, your also doing the campaign tasks. I buy both, would love dragonite, glad about extra books. Don’t need nothing else. Maybe a sentinel gnome 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![DracoL1ch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dracol1ch/32/75027_2.png) [@DracoL1ch](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DracoL1ch)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/84 "2025-07-03T15:40:25Z")
All tasks finished by Wednesday, except for demons. Sigh ---
**Author:** ![Maisie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maisie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maisie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/85 "2025-07-03T15:41:40Z")
On the upside, we finally got to see what Guild Keys look like. ---
**Author:** ![Fourdottwoone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/fourdottwoone/32/66655_2.png) [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/86 "2025-07-03T16:50:13Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > Casting spells is something every does in every battle, though? I’d go as far as saying that killing enemies, winning battles, matching skulls, matching mana gens, matching 4 or more gems, destroying heroic gems and killing enemies is also something everyone does in every battle. Rare exceptions may apply, just like it is possible to not cast spells in battles. > [@Jeto](#): > > So, it will just progress in the background for you without requiring you to put any effort into completing it, other than collecting the rewards. So, I think we can agree that they will all just progress in the background. And I think we should agree that they all require effort, because they don’t progress without playing. This effort may be spent in any area of the game, it still has to be spent though. If there is the impression that the rewards auto-collect for everyone, just send them by mail and ditch campaign tasks. > [@Jeto](#): > > Just trying to get clarity on this feedback, if it’s a task you don’t need to actively work on - other than the feedback around the rewards themselves for this task. I’d rephrase the feedback like this: “Campaign tasks are supposed reward players for continuously interacting with the game over 10 weeks. Some of those loyalty rewards feel very much underpowered, bordering on insulting for anyone who has played the game. To give an example, 100 jewel shards are entirely worthless. It’s a crafting component that has no use on its own, even recipes nobody would ever think of crafting need thousands of them. Please consider revisiting those rewards, drop the ones that serve no purpose, possibly improve the quantity of some.” ---
**Author:** ![mgmt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mgmt/32/102258_2.png) [@mgmt](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mgmt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/88 "2025-07-04T05:33:06Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > Players can now earn 1 Campaign Star when playing most game modes ( Event Battles, PvP Battles, Quests, Explores at Difficulty IV or Higher). It is **obscene** that you still don’t respect your players enough to put info like this within the game, in the campaign menu, where it belongs. > [@Guild Wars Reforged: The future and beyond](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/guild-wars-reforged-the-future-and-beyond/87332/1): > > it’s more about either consolidating things, so you can do two at once – or shortening things, so they take less time to complete. Before this patch routine daily tasks like Dungeon and Adventure Board were mostly sufficient across the weeks to max out the artifact. Now they contribute ZERO progress to the campaign pass. And NOTHING in-game explains why. In an update that was pitched to “consolidate” or “shorten” things for overtaxed players, you couldn’t have pushed the needle further in the wrong direction. Bewildering levels of failure once again. ---
**Author:** ![Crono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crono](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Crono)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/89 "2025-07-04T13:31:42Z")
Well I’m glad we’re getting more of the rarer items and less of the farmable ones. I’m not finding the campaign tasks very onerous at all as a regular player. ---
**Author:** ![Theoden25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@Theoden25](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theoden25)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/90 "2025-07-05T22:59:41Z")
I know that most players tend to complain all the time about changes and I fully understand, and even share their feelings but in terms of this, I could get used to this. Actually, these tasks actually improve the Campaigns and could make it easier, and less costly to level up kingdoms especially ‘magic’ kingdoms beyond NORMAL (not power) level 15. This looks actually promising to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kelana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kelana/32/88601_2.png) [@Kelana](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kelana)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/91 "2025-07-06T02:42:30Z")
Agreed, Theoden. I don’t like the new format of the campaign pass at all (it was more readable in two lines), but I very much appreciate the improvement in rewards from the campaign tasks. ---
**Author:** ![Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/977dab/32.png) [@Vorlon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 7:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/92 "2025-07-06T07:10:21Z")
Campaign tasks finished in less than a week with 64 days to go. There should be higher tiers. ---
**Author:** ![Risa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@Risa](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Risa)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/93 "2025-07-06T08:43:12Z")
Careful here. We certainly don’t want another PvP season goal named “Promoted”. ---
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/94 "2025-07-06T09:11:37Z")
> [@Risa](#): > > Careful here 👆 this. We might end up with the same goals being time-gated like the stars. 😅 🖖 ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/95 "2025-09-17T01:36:46Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > Yeah it’s meant to be Event Keys, I’ll let the team know but it can’t be changed till next Campaign. … it was not changed. It’s now being changed. ---
**Author:** ![Anam\_Cara](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/anam_cara/32/103620_2.png) [@Anam\_Cara](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Anam_Cara)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/96 "2025-09-17T03:52:02Z")
Thank you! The change is live! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/c/ecbd0e6965e68dd11a5fe7b981c56cb5742e68e5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/97 "2025-09-17T04:01:56Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > … it was not changed. > > It’s now being changed. > [@Anam\_Cara](#): > > Thank you! The change is live! Given that I hadn’t yet claimed this, I’ll now get event keys instead of guild keys, which have a different chance of giving a mythic, right? I mean, assuming your guild has fully leveled up the chest to level 6, won’t it have a higher chance of giving a mythic? And either way, surely some players are disadvantaged by changing it during the campaign, instead of between campaigns like you clearly wanted them to. Right? ---
**Author:** ![becauseican646](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@becauseican646](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/becauseican646)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/98 "2025-09-17T04:38:07Z")
I already collected the guild keys and I do get the complaint but it’s 2 keys. Does it really matter? 2 keys is just shy of worthless for a reward as either event keys or guild keys. ---
**Author:** ![Darkborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkborne/32/95796_2.png) [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/99 "2025-09-17T04:43:44Z")
Outside of the Deeds (Imperial, Pages, and Books), the other rewards leave a lot to be desired because most of those rewards can be gotten from events and dailies for _ **much** less effort._ Replace the keys and underworld treasures with writs, diamonds and dragonite or something more useful. Rewards like 2 event and vault keys isn’t going to do 💩. ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:45am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/100 "2025-09-17T04:45:42Z")
> [@becauseican646](#): > > but it’s 2 keys. Does it really matter? Not much. I agree. Just pointing out that changing a reward when some people have claimed it, and other haven’t, isn’t very fair. This example is small enough not to matter much, but it shouldn’t happen at all. And for that tiny number of people who would trade those two keys for a mythic they wouldn’t get from the other two keys, it would matter, but they’ll never know either way, I guess. > [@Darkborne](#): > > Replace the keys and underworld treasures with writs, diamonds and dragonite or something more useful. Rewards like 2 event and vault keys isn’t going to do 💩. Also, agreed. Better rewards would be great. Starting next campaign. ---
**Author:** ![DracoL1ch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dracol1ch/32/75027_2.png) [@DracoL1ch](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DracoL1ch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998/101 "2025-09-17T10:51:00Z")
Can’t say I put any effort, just 60 min pvp and autobattles across the day and I have all the campaign tasks done by tuesdays evening (except for orc enemy ofc, the most braindead task). Rewards are crap, but so were at the original campaign. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/update-8-6-patch-notes/87998.md?page=4)